@John - No objection here. @Ray squared - The idea of overriding HandlerManager still intrigues me. I've never found myself wanting to do it and I don't recall seeing it in practice elsewhere. I'm curious. If either of you knows of a project where I could find an example, would you mind passing along a link?
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:52 PM, John LaBanca <jlaba...@google.com> wrote: > Does anyone object to adding createHandlerManager now, and then adding > getHandlerManager if it is needed later? > Thanks, > John LaBanca > jlaba...@google.com > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Ray Ryan <rj...@google.com> wrote: >> >> But I could still override createHM to be a wrapper that is backed by two >> separate instances, for example. I'm running out of rationalizations for >> providing both methods. And if getHM is missed it could be added later. >> >> 180 degrees, >> rjrjr >> >> On Feb 11, 2010 1:00 PM, "Ray Cromwell" <cromwell...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you need to swap out two different complex event handling modes of >> a widget (where say, a half dozen different events are being >> monitored), I think it is too complex to remove all the old handlers >> and add new ones every time, I also think overriding onBrowserEvent is >> kind of tedious and limited, since every time you need to change the >> set being nullified or altered, you need to edit the method. >> >> Consider a paint program with a paint widget, where, depending on >> which tool is selected (clone, crop, airbrush, etc) a different set of >> event handlers will be active. On some, you may care about drag, or >> keyboard, or mouse wheel, or others, you don't. >> >> You could of course write an object that absorbs all the events and >> re-routes/broadcasts them as needed, but then all you've done is >> simply re-invent HandlerManager and called it 'EventRouter' or some >> subject. >> >> Ray * Ray = Ray ^2 >> >> :) >> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Isaac Truett <itru...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I was actually thinking... >> >> -- >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >> >> -- >> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
